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cappy
20-09-2006, 10:15 PM
I have a VERY frustrated colleague who has just switched to an ActivBoard after using a Smart Board in her high school chemistry class for five years. She runs AS2 on an iBookG4 with OSX Tiger and cannot reliably save her handwritten problem solutions for later use. She reports that often an equals sign will be missing the second line, thereby turning it into a minus sign---obviously not acceptable for a science classroom. Is there any help out there? We've tried tech support to no avail.
LisaD
21-09-2006, 12:18 AM
Just curious. when she was using the Smartboard, was she using a Mac or a PC?

The handwriting recognition in Activstudio for the Mac uses the Max OS's "Inkwell" technology and I believe that Smart's Mac software does as well, so they should behave similarly (I would think) when converting handwritten notes to text.

If she was using a PC, that would behave differently as the handwriting engine is different. At least I have found that I prefer the handwriting recognition on the PC over the built-in one on the Mac. You can select to transform the writing to letters, letter and numbers, numbers, or shapes. You can also write in cursive.

Hope that helps,

Lisa
cappy
21-09-2006, 01:06 AM
Oh, I'm afraid I wasn't clear. She isn't looking to have her handwriting recognized. She simply wants her handwritten annotations/writing saved as handwritten annotations so she and her class can refer to a problem they solved together in a previous class session. For example, after hand-writing the word "conduction" she saved her flipchart. When she opened it up the next day, that hand-written word had been altered to "conduclion" because the cross on her 't' had disappeared. Our tech guy has verified that this is happening.
Peter Lambert
21-09-2006, 01:33 AM
Spooky! Overnight the Mac gremlin is stealing the crosses from the T's and the dots from the I's. ;)
Seriously, this is a bit wierd, it sounds like the program is not saving the last annotation. I cross my T's after writing the rest of the word, I wonder if this is a bug?:eek: